The Intervention Process
- Contact an Intervention expert or treatment center in your area
- Discuss the details of your loved one’s addiction
- Schedule the intervention if its right for you
- Meet with the Interventionist to prepare
- Stage the intervention
- Your loved one enters treatment and begins the process of recovery
Watching a loved one destroy themselves though an addiction is both heartbreaking and frustrating. The nature of addiction is such that attempts by friends and family members to help the addict often fail to fix the problem and frequently drive the addict farther away. Families are then caught in a seemingly unsolvable puzzle, unable to help but unable to bear watching their loved one slowly kill themselves.
Intervention Q&A
Should we wait until the addict hits bottom to get him help?Is paying for an intervention & treatment just more enabling?What if the intervention makes things worse and the addict runs away to die in the streets? What if the intervention is too much stress and my ailing family member dies during the intervention. What will the neighbors think?